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Re: Damage on my 2018 Les Paul CH. How well can it be fixed?

Originally Posted by 57Strat777

Beautiful guitar! I am glad to hear to got your baby fixed, but $485 for that repair was highway robbery. My R8 had 3 or 4 similar dings on the back of the neck and my luthier charged me $40 to fix it. He told me the process is easy. He filled the dings with multiple coats of lacquer letting each coat dry until the ding was filled. He was doing a refret at the time, so maybe he gave me a better deal on the ding repair. He leveled the fretboard, refretted with stainless frets, installed a new bone nut and fixed those dings I mentioned. Total cost for all that was $390.

I don't really got anything to compared it too price vice, so it's hard to say. With all respect, remember I'am living in Norway, where salary, taxes and general living cost are a bit higher then US.
We are few people and there's not that many that can make a living from fixing guitars. I had a 4 hours drive to get mine done

Re: Damage on my 2018 Les Paul CH. How well can it be fixed?

Originally Posted by Tor

I don't rely got anything to compared it too price vice, so it's hard to say. With all respect, remember I'am living in Norway, where salary, taxes and general living cost are a bit higher then US.
We are few people and there's not that many that can make a living from fixing guitars. I had a 4 hours drive to get mine done

Tor,

Given the typical costs in Norway, and the results of the repair to your Historic LP, I think you did well.

Lacquer finishes that incorporate tint over dyed pore filler have a translucent quality that is nearly impossible to spot-repair with an invisible blend. One can get close, and it looks like the tech who did your work knew how to do that.

Re: Damage on my 2018 Les Paul CH. How well can it be fixed?

Originally Posted by KR1

Tor,

Given the typical costs in Norway, and the results of the repair to your Historic LP, I think you did well.

Lacquer finishes that incorporate tint over dyed pore filler have a translucent quality that is nearly impossible to spot-repair with an invisible blend. One can get close, and it looks like the tech who did your work knew how to do that.

All good.

Thank you! And i notice several of your answers earlier in the post, and you seem to know a bit on how these repairs work and what you could expect as a finished result.
So it's somewhat comforting hearing that this is actually a good work and on par of what you could expect.

All in all, I'm very pleased with the result, and yes, it wasn't cheap, but I din't find it to expensive either.